We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."
"The ability to add the virtual machine on the Spectrum environment to sort out the data movers(DMs) and their schedules is a valuable feature. You are able to have, for example, four data movers to balance them so you do not have too much work on one data mover."
"I like all the features, but the most impressive recently has been the introduction of IBM's Flash Core Modules. They are a form of a flash drive, but they have many more features."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"I hate I/O groups. If you start swapping I/O groups, they can be potentially risky. If they could get rid of the whole I/O group principle, the risk is not there anymore. I understand the fundamental thing about I/O groups, but they are risky."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 2 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "A scalable storage solution for our architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Enables us to build an infrastructure and replace storage with no disruption to our hosts whatsoever". Dell VPLEX is most compared with NetApp OnCommand, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell Storage Resource Manager and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, DataCore SANsymphony, HPE StoreVirtual and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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